>> i don't disagree that would make logical sense. the problem is al-qaeda has already pledged to there. the taliban has been working with them and he was purposely said that. i think the facts of the ground it's not just al-qaeda with every other sort of islamic terrorism group now. even if they don't come to afghanistan, that might be wher the taliban get smart. maybe they say don't, here. >> there are like 20 of them, 2 different groups. >> i think the most important thing in the last 20 years has been we didn't start the war. remember, the war came to us an then we decided to go on the offense. that has to remain. remind everybody that you can get into the september 10 thinking and complacency. remember the 3:00 a.m. phone call in 2016. we didn't talk too much of that